Fish eye lens question and wide angle lens?

Typically if a lens is fisheye, it’ll tell you right off the bat because they’re all labeled as “fisheye”. No matter what wide angle lens you get, you are going to experience some distortion. However, I think it can be kind of cool.. If you are using a 1.6x sensor, or crop frame, wide angle lenses are a bit more “zoomed in” than they would be on a full frame camera so you have to think about that. Assuming you’re using a crop frame, I would seriously look into a lens anywhere from 10 to 12 mm as its widest point. You can go as low as 8 even, but that may be a little intense.

By saying that you want a 55mm lens, you are denoting that you want a screw on piece of glass. That reduces image quality by the bucketloads and is not a real lens. While you can get one the edge falloff is always bad on those lenses so to get rid of it one crops it (which kinda renders the "lens useless) .Consider getting the 16-85mm or the 10-22mm genuine sony lenses instead. They are worth the price...

Do you want a lens for your DSLR? A wide angle diopter attachment for your DSLR or a wide angle diopter attachment for your compact? "Lens" has come to be mistaken for many things these days when ti really only means the big thing that attached directly to a SLR camera. Not the fisheye that screws to the front of a lens. And like he said, depending on what you have an what you want, the answer to your question becomes either yes or no.

Yes, you can get a wide-angle lens that isn't a fisheye (depending on how wide you're talking about!). The issue is that you will still get some sort of "fisheye" distortion just because that's what wide-angle lenses do! There are techniques you can use to help make the final product look better (such as not taking a close shot of people were the distortion would be really noticeable). Try looking into the Tokina 11-16mm (for APS-C cameras) as I've heard a lot of good things about them!